NAYRT (but the anon upthread who first mentioned TSN)
HBO War was similar, since there are books and interviews with details from the real people's lives, so fandom could pick and choose what they wanted to include in headcanon and fic. So it was a lot of fic based on the characterization from the miniseries, but with real life details from the books thrown in.
The fandom's heydey also had a lot of high-quality fic for such a medium-sized fandom. In fact, a lot of the medium-sized pseudo-RPF fandoms I've been in have had high-quality fic.
What has always interested me about fandoms like these is that they're about people who aren't celebrities, so there's such a different approach to fic than normal celebrity based RPF.
Re: RPF
HBO War was similar, since there are books and interviews with details from the real people's lives, so fandom could pick and choose what they wanted to include in headcanon and fic. So it was a lot of fic based on the characterization from the miniseries, but with real life details from the books thrown in.
The fandom's heydey also had a lot of high-quality fic for such a medium-sized fandom. In fact, a lot of the medium-sized pseudo-RPF fandoms I've been in have had high-quality fic.
What has always interested me about fandoms like these is that they're about people who aren't celebrities, so there's such a different approach to fic than normal celebrity based RPF.